Playing music Quotes · Page 7

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

— Dave Grohl

The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

— Michael Glawogger

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

— Ezra Miller

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

— Kesha

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

— Ryan Adams

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

— Avey Tare

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

— Alex Ebert

My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

— Butch Trucks

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and…

— Ryan Bingham

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's…

— Hope Sandoval

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I…

— Robby Krieger

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important…

— Jason Mraz

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.…

— Kim Gordon

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is -…

— Hiromi

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had…

— Fiona Apple

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in…

— Chris Hesse

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was…

— Henry Rollins

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for…

— Steve Martin

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both…

— Kate Bush

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since…

— Anton Yelchin

I would say that I'm happy getting to make a living playing music and seeing people enjoy music that I make. So…

— Ben Rector

When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that…

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

— Joe Perry

There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

— Butch Trucks

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

— Chris Stapleton

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

— Mark Foster

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

— Bob Dylan

I was playing music since I was 6 or 7. I felt that music was a given to me.

— Gabriella Wilson

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs.

— Tyler Childers

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

— Mark Salling

And it's always good to get back home and see the people you love, and get to spend time with your family…

— Morgan Wallen

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music.…

— Klaus Schulze

You can't speak as a conservative on campus without being boycott, without being protested, without students lining up and playing music loudly…

— Candace Owens

For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and…

— Leon Russell

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long…

— Chaz Bundick